Spare The Air Alert For Bay Area As Wildfire Fight Enters 2nd Week
A smoke advisory and spare the air alert has been issued for Monday in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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A smoke advisory and spare the air alert has been issued for Monday in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Smoke from the wildfires north of San Francisco plunged air quality levels in the Bay Area to the same unhealthy level as China's notoriously polluted capital, sending people to emergency rooms and forcing schools to close
California Gov. Jerry Brown warns that catastrophic wildfires will keep ripping through the state as the climate warms.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District on Wednesday extended a health advisory and Spare the Air alert into the weekend, as wildfires in the wine country continue to rage.
The death toll from the devastating wildfires in Northern California wine country rose to 17 on Tuesday as firefighters struggled to get any containment on more than a dozen fires in the region.
As firefighters continue to battle over a dozen wildfires in the Napa and Sonoma Valley wine country, air quality remains an issue across the Bay Area.
Wind-whipped wildfires devastated the North Bay wine region and neighboring counties, killing at least 10 people, burning at least 1,500 buildings, and forcing thousands to evacuate.
People throughout the Bay Area reported smoke and ash early Monday morning after multiple out-of-control wildfires broke out in Napa and Sonoma Counties.
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that he will sign a new rule overriding the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era effort to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants.
The Trump administration is moving to repeal the centerpiece of former President Barack Obama's efforts to slow global warming.
Forecasters said it is likely to reach the U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane over the weekend.
New waste and recycling bins and signage explaining the changes have been rolled out in the Sunset District and will spread to the rest of the city over the next two years.
California's water managers appear to have violated state law by hiring an unqualified consultant to help plan Gov. Jerry Brown's $16 billion project to build two massive water tunnels, state auditors said Thursday.
National Weather Service officials Sunday extended a Red Flag Warning through Tuesday evening for the North Bay mountains because the risk of wildfires will be extremely high.
For the first time ever, California has released a report naming the top toxic chemicals emitted from its petroleum refineries.
